The level where everything is really weird
by digby
This is the best short documentary you’ll see all year
The author Josiah “Tink” Thompson, author of the book “Six Seconds In Dallas” (which considered the “umbrella man”) invokes a piece of writing by John Updike:
In December 1967 John Updike was writing “Talk of the Town” for The New Yorker. And he spent most of that “Talk of the Town” column talking about the “umbrella man.” He said that his learning of the existence of the umbrella man made him speculate that in historical research there may be a dimension similar to the quantum dimension in physical reality. If you put any event under a microscope you will find a whole dimension of completely weird, incredible things going on. It’s as if there’s the macro level of historical research where things sort of obey natural laws and the usual things happen and unusual things don’t happen. And then there’s this other level where everything is really weird.